Windows 9 set for release next year

Caged said:
Yeah I did. 7 Pro to 8 Pro wouldn't carry my user profile across, 8 Pro to 8.1 Pro didn't carry over any installed programs..
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I did this a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure what went wrong but it was flawless for me. My 7 upgrade was flawless too :confused:
 
Elevon said:
Does not matter what they do,you'll always get people moaning about something,same will happen with Win9,10,11 etc..

Frankly I can't remember the last OS where some people did not moan about something with Windows and yes I remember the moaning about XP,Win7 etc...

Regardless I find it easy to adapt and move on,I'm ready for Win9,10 etc...
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I don't actually remember a lot of people moaning about Windows 7. It's the ONLY Windows version I can say that about, I think most of it is because all Windows 7 was, was an improved version of Vista, (very much improved) which had already taken all the flack.
 
I had no interest in the blocky neon nonsense that was Windows 8, and have happily stuck with 7. If MS are sensible with Windows 9, it might make a worthwhile upgrade. 4-5 years is a much more tolerable OS upgrade cycle for most sane people.

As for Win 8's place in history... well that's another Vista in the making, regardless of what the desperate early adopting fanboy's claim... It always provokes a wry grin when this happens.
 
Seems like 8.1 was a sort of stop gap (with 9 out in 2015) for the time being given the amount of people annoyed with 8. (granted some liked it).
 
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darael said:
These Windows releases are becoming far too frequent. They are treating it like something you just reinstall and upgrade on a daily basis. The simple fact is, most people and businesses like a stable OS they can rely on and not have to upgrade it every couple of seconds.
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Windows releases are actually getting back to their more regular release schedule. The gap between XP and Vista is the unusual one...

1993 - Windows 3.11
1995 - Windows 95 (2 year gap)
1996 - Windows NT 4.0 (1 year gap)
1998 - Windows 98 (2 year gap)
2000 - Windows 2000 and ME (2 year gap)
2001 - Windows XP (1 year gap)
2007 - Windows Vista (6 year gap!)
2009 - Windows 7 (2 year gap)
2012 - Windows 8 (3 year gap)
2015? - Windows 9 (3 year gap)
 
Windows 8 can go suck on hairy hippo wedding vegetables for all I care I hate it with a passion (similar to Marmite for that matter). Alienating nearly their entire user base with this Metro BS was a stupid move and frankly they should know better than that, as for W9 if they remove the Metro UI and bring back a proper fully functional Start Menu then I can see it working for them (at the very least give people an option of using Metro UI or not).

Stoner81.
 
If you can't be flexible enough to handle simple changes in software then I really don't know how you get through life and what that chucks at you.

I am nearly 40 and handled the change from 7 to 8 in 20 minutes, my father who is 72 manged in 30 minutes and is going a little senile...

If you can't handle the change and think its a pile of crap then you should not be using a computer or even leave your own house.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I did this a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure what went wrong but it was flawless for me. My 7 upgrade was flawless too :confused:
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^ This. I've seen an 8.1 update break a Dolby audio service and that's about as dramatic as it gets in my experience. Installed programs work absolutely fine after the update.
 
By all means have an opinion, but at least try to base it on fact and personal use rather than the opinions of others which date back almost a year in many cases.

I didn't like Windows 8 to start with but tbh it is just Windows 7 with some nice extras, the GUI frankly doesn't get in the way and the searching on it is incredibly useful. I've set Windows 8.1 to go straight to desktop, they could remove the new gui entirely and I wouldn't care but I'm not going to condemn the entire OS based on one part of it, which I rarely use. When there's so many nice tweaks and changes been made to it outside of the hated GUI that people love to get their knickers in a twist about.
 
d_brennen said:
Pah, I still use DOS, Windows is just some junk you launch with a command, isn't it?
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DOS good old days which was probably the last time I had to use my brain for some commands,Windows especially now you can do without even thinking unless you are one of those people that has an intelligence drop with the start button menu missing ;) .
 
Elevon said:
DOS good old days which was probably the last time I had to use my brain for some commands,Windows especially now you can do without even thinking unless you are one of those people that has an intelligence drop with the start button menu missing ;) .
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Thats the problem isnt it, its all getting dumbed down, obviously there are money making forces for making things more accesible but computings not such a niche and specialist thing any more. Almost anyone who can turn on a pc and work things out can become it support etc. The more apple et al make easy to use interfaces the less it feels like computing to me.

Still you could just install UNIX and do things properly and no, i dont like having to be sure that i want to do something in Windows...
 
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